I’m a beer guy. Social drinker. Moderate. Sixty years old. Drunk maybe four or...

Most longevity content is cosplay: powders, protocols, and a personality. Real longevity is boring....

At 11:30 a.m., my stomach is loudly protesting my 16‑hour fast, while Instagram serves me a fourth ad for "fasting‑support" electrolyte powder that costs more per gram than cocaine. My phone wants me to track my ketone levels, my "fasting window," and my "metabolic age" on three different apps. Fasting is less about food than about refusing to let the attention economy feed you—literally and algorithmically.

Sanctions are marketed as moral policy. In practice, they behave like software design: permissions,...